Until recently this music was almost invariably viewed and experienced through a prism of 19th-century rhetoric – listening to Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov deftly tracing the evanescent... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, More…

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Both works are essentially about desire, and their sensuality is heightened here not only by their juxtaposition but by the dark warmth of Les Siècles’ period-instrument sound and the restrained... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2018More…

Release Date: 30th Nov 2018

Catalogue No: HMM905291

Label: Harmonia Mundi

Series: Debussy Centenary Edition

Length: 50 minutes

Awards:

CD + DVD Video

$14.50

Region: All

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